Albums
Atmogat
Autechre
Autistici
Bitcrush
Black Gold 360
Sylvain Chauveau
Cut Iowa Network
Delicate Noise
Dof
The Element Choir
FNS
Four Tet
Gutta Percha
Greg Haines
Chihei Hatakeyama
Ian Hawgood
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Kahn and Mueller
Konntinent
L/M/R/W
Francisco López
Aaron Martin
Musette
Near The Parenthesis
Offthesky
Dustin O'Halloran
Redhooker
Relmic Statute
Ruxpin
Sintetic-Collage
Sister Overdrive
Starkey
Tokyo Mask
Youth Pictures of F. Hend.
Compilations / Mixes
Agoria
Advent
My Private Space
Peeling
Untitled 10
EPs
Amman.Josh
A Wake A Week
Tolga Baklacioglu
Boxharp
Cursor Miner
Abe Duque
EPROM / Eskmo
Funckarma
Florent Ghys
LJ Kruzer
Lobisomem
Maps and Diagrams
Moving Dawn Orchestra
Marcello Napoletano
Alexandre Navarro
Obsidian
Glen Porter
Nigel Samways
The Soul's Release
Sparkhouse / Jacksonville
Subeena
Talvihorros
Nigel Samways:
Poor Henrietta Marie
Hibernate / Ephre
One of the things that distinguishes English sound artist Nigel Samways' work from others is that he doesn't use the field recording as merely a decorative add-on to his musical material; instead, the field recording functions as the nucleus for the musical fabric woven around it. Poor Henrietta Marie perfectly exemplifies the approach. If at first the three-inch EP (available in only a fifty-copy run) seems oddly titled, it turns out to be anything but, as Samways built the piece up from a recording he made of a girl singing “Wade in the Water” while busking on a street in Lewes. Supplementing that material with magnetic tape, computer processing, and live instruments, Samways creates a dream-like twenty-two-minute suite that finds the girl's exhalation repeatedly resounding within a slipstream of glassy haze and abandoned mansion-like noisemongering. Dense winds blow through the EP's dusty corridors while rain dribbles and drizzles beyond its walls, after which the singer soulfully serenades herself into a trance amidst rivulets of shimmering organ tones until the piece crawls to an unsettling, funereal close. Likening the recording to an aural hallucinogen wouldn't be too far off the mark.
April 2010